Cybernetic Forests

Eryk Salvaggio
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Cybernetic Forests is a newsletter about artificial intelligence, read as a cultural and political object rather than a technical one — essays, artworks, and talks from a researcher and media artist working on AI.

Episodes

  1. Aug 24

    ChatGPT Breakup Mixtape

    Can a ChatBot break up with you? It happened en masse on February 13, 2026, as OpenAI deprecated its companionship-friendly ChatGPT "4o" model. This is a mix tape. It has AI-generated songs created from texts that ChatGPT wrote to people on the internet before it was shut down. Why slop? Because I want to get into the headspace of what emotionally manipulative AI feels like, and generated pop music pushes the same tactics. In the mixtape narration, I discuss what the model does and why it writes these texts the way it does. I also produce some slop-pop: songs generated by the synthetic logic that wrote the messages in the first place. Why a slop mix tape? Because when you and I look at these texts they are… texts. We make sense of them intellectually. But for the people on the receiving end of these messages, the music is emotionally charged. By turning them into music AI would (and did) write, the language takes on a different weight. We can come closer to feeling how these texts would feel, if we saw ChatGPT as a partner about to leave us. More at cyberneticforests.com Or Follow the Newsletter Here

    ChatGPT Breakup Mixtape
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Cybernetic Forests is a newsletter about artificial intelligence, read as a cultural and political object rather than a technical one — essays, artworks, and talks from a researcher and media artist working on AI.

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  • Creator
    Eryk Salvaggio
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Eryk Salvaggio
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